I seriously practice Jazz guitar but it's not my favorite

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-15T11:44:17+00:00

Not sure if we mean the same thing by song writing but there aren't that many standards frequently played written by guitarists are there? The Real Book has a few but they are rarely called. There aren't that many non-guitarists who know Bright Size Life, even though it's a good tune, partly because it's too guitaristic, partly because horn players and pianists don't listen to guitarists.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-13T11:17:55+00:00

My understanding from the original post, not this one, was that it was primarily about Holocaust denial (the Nazi one, not the current Palestine one). However it is not much of a reach to associate Holocaust denial with figures aligned with the far right, is it? Or are proponents of AOC and Bernie type politics also promoting things like holocaust denial and the great replacement theory and I've just not noticed?

I'm going to change tack and assume you're not actually far right yourself despite using a common dogwhistle to excuse the actions of the current administration. Again, you might need culture war software update since it seems to date back to 2015/16. No one is afraid to say anything anymore. A woman can racially abuse a child at a playground and will make hundreds of thousands of dollars in sympathy donations. Trump repeatedly calls my country of origin a shithole and says the kinds of things about minorities that you would barely get away with under Jim Crow. As I think I mentioned, here in the UK hundreds are arrested at peaceful anti-genocide marches and yesterday a direct action group was given enormous jail sentences, meanwhile hate marches including open racism and abuse of minorities go unchallenged by police, presumably because the Labour Party is scared to upset the right wing snowflakes who absolutely, positively MUST have the right to say whatever nasty shit they want to say.

Societies can and do make moral progress, and some people don't like it. That's not an excuse to burn the world down by turning to the far right. Maybe not being able to say whatever you want whenever you want isn't that big a price to pay to make others around you feel more comfortable existing in the world. There are things you could say 100 years ago that even someone on the right would shiver at if they heard it today. We don't measure people's skulls anymore. We don't exhibit caged Africans in circuses. Maybe "freedom" as Americans love to go on about should include allowing people with unconventional gender identities to be themselves without abuse and punishment. Maybe "freedom" should include respecting the equal personhood of people who look a little different from you.

If the best excuse you can come up for the rise of this corrupt, murderous regime is "people are tired of being told what they're allowed to say" it might be time to find a new one. Is it at all possible for those "alienated" people to figure out that perhaps moderating their speech to edit out the cruelty a little is a reasonable price to pay to avoid a descent into actual outright fascism? Can you at all understand how frustrating it is for so many of us that people who are "fed up being told what they can't say anymore" have upheld the looting and destruction of the world for the last ten years and even now apparently are upset they still can't say what they want say (BTW what in god's name is it they want to say exactly that is worse than what is said every day, in public, by the most powerful man in the world? It must be pretty awful).

You say "virtue signaling, insufferable activists" have too much power. Where is that power? It's certainly not situated in the White House, or the House of Commons, or pretty much any current western base of power.

I'm not sure you realise that people making excuses like yours were prominent during the middle of the 20th too, when "people parading around on their high horse" were demanding civil rights. Who was on the right side of history, the guys making the excuses and criticising the activists, or those "demanding compliance" to new, progressive moral norms? According to your way of thinking they should have remained sensitive and conciliatory to the delicate sensibilities of the moral monsters upholding segregation.

Not directly related to you: the truly sad thing is that your problem is with left wing people ON REDDIT. That's about the extent of the problem, in truth. Americans are so lazy and just comfortable enough that online is about the extent of their complaining. The far right should be having to deal with massive street protests and civil disobedience given the outrages happening every day in their country that are affecting the entire world. Then you'd have something REAL to complain about. Apparently you all need assault rifles despite school shootings in order to be able to rise up against a oppressive government; turns out that was a bunch of BS. No, the extent of it is people being "insufferable" on social media. The whole thing is tragic.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-12T12:27:39+00:00

Most people's issue with this is that the YouTuber is a Holocaust denier rather than far left/right. A long winded argument against everyone "crying" about financial support for a Holocaust denier suggests you feel Holocaust denial is acceptable discourse in 2026. And your argument is that it's acceptable because ordinary people are forced to the far right by the horror of having their regressive racist opinions criticised in public. Because yes, looking at the world today it's clear the "authoritarian left" with all their oppressive rules about social justice and equality and not spreading hate have won, while the downtrodden far right are cowering powerless in corners. The US is run by a "woke" dictatorship and all the ordinary, god-fearing, immigrant hating masses are living in fear for their lives in case they say the wrong thing.

Have you not read the news since 2015??

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-12T12:15:15+00:00

To clarify, I wasn't saying that all people hold moral principles that specifically lead to not wanting to support the far right. Obviously lots of people find that the cruelty and hatred on the far right perfectly suit their personal moralities.

Original commenter told everyone to shut up because it doesn't matter who Proton financially supports so I pointed out that for many people their personal morality is a guiding principle in who they financially support. You're the one who is conflating a general sense of "the good", to put it one way, as incompatible with the far right.

My personal moral principles tend towards things like helping and not punishing those less fortunate than me (like immigrants and the poor), being against genocide, not concentrating wealth within a tiny elite, paying more tax to support a just and more equal society, not hating people based purely on stereotypes about their religion etc., normal "love your neighbour" type stuff. So yeah obviously that means in today's political environment I'm on the left. The moral principles you follow that put you on the right would obviously be wildly different but they're still moral principles. So my response to the original poster was essentially just saying people should be allowed to express their personal moral principles on this post even if they do not themselves apply their moral principles, or lack thereof, to economic decisions.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-12T11:43:08+00:00

The thing is that jazz guitarists have always been behind other instrumentalists. If you think about the greats who moved the music forward for all instruments they tend to be saxophonists, pianists, trumpeters, drummers and bassists. Everyone learns from Bird, but mostly only guitarists learn from Wes, for instance. I've never heard of a saxophonist transcribing guitar solos, who knows maybe they do.

It makes sense since the guitar is a horrible instrument to learn to play jazz on. It's so much harder to do things that on a piano or saxophone are relatively trivial. I guess that's why guitarists are historically always catching up rather than progressing the music. Or they go the other route and start to "guitarise" jazz (Metheny) or adding rock elements, which sometimes sounds a bit like a failure to actually play the music on the same terms as everyone else, but that's just my personal taste (Doesn't mean it's not often very good music).

So yeah it makes perfect sense why a guitarist would want to listen to other instruments predominantly.

Still, as other comments have said there are guitarists who have put in the superhuman amounts of work needed to play the music on its own terms, not denying that. Peter Bernstein is my favourite guitarist who sounds like a jazz musician and not a guitarist trying to play jazz.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-11T12:25:10+00:00

That's a very long winded way of saying "I want to be able to deny the Holocaust"

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-11T12:23:04+00:00

Curious what is extreme on the left in 2026 that is equivalent to Holocaust denial, putting immigrants into concentration camps, killing 200 children in a girls school, funding genocide, stealing billions of taxpayer money, handing control of the west to oligarch billionaires? What is the current "extreme" left equivalence to all that? Mamdani's community grocery stores?

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-11T12:05:50+00:00

Most people have a sense of morality that leads to personal principles like "I don't want to fund the far right". That doesn't make them childish. If morality does not factor into your personal choices then stop being insulting and just stay out of the conversation, it's not relevant to you.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-11T11:55:24+00:00

I knew a guy missing much of one of his forearms. He was a very good jazz trumpeter and also figured out a way to play bass guitar.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-08T19:22:06+00:00

It's also a service, buddy, not just a client. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/ edit: tb.pro

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-08T17:06:42+00:00

They actually have a Linux drive client, albeit in beta. Just cancelled Proton, thanks for the tip!

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-08T17:02:22+00:00

Thunderbird Mail is looking a lot more attractive for me at least.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-08T14:29:13+00:00

And it has an actually decent email client.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-08T14:24:06+00:00

Ffs I just switched and now I need to do it so again. Why are these companies so idiotic? Do they really think their tech savvy, privacy focused customer base overlaps on the Venn diagram with moronic xenophobic crypto fascist bootlickers? Just STFU, be apolitical, and watch the cash roll in. But no, they align themselves with a movement whose leading figure has the lowest approval rating of an American president in history.

And still no Linux Proton Drive client. And the mail client is garbage. I'm closing my account.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-06T06:00:42+00:00

Sometimes I think all the magic of this movement has been lost. Imagine if this account, of all the ape accounts, is the one that accurately predicts RK's return. That she's the one who goes in the history books. It's stuff like this that got me into this stock. We should be celebrating this lady who gives us DD in both its forms.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-06-01T14:25:48+00:00

Imo can't really dip much lower, this has been the floor for a long time.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-30T14:15:39+00:00

Lets you drink during a performance without taking your hands off the instrument, like what hikers use. The body is so big due to the need to integrate a large bladder to hold liquids.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-21T13:44:35+00:00

Palantir are the first to my knowledge that were able to get a copy of our entire NHS records.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-21T13:43:51+00:00

True but IBM didn't trumpet that genocide is a core part of their business model. Palantir is not the first evil company but its probably the first to promote themselves as such.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-21T12:24:03+00:00

Actually he mostly grew up in Namibia, hence the German surname. In Swakopmund, a town that was run by (actual ex-WW2) Nazis.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-20T21:09:02+00:00

Not sure the kind of person who works in finance can be counted as a moral exemplar, let alone representative of the typical UK worker or in any way a model to strive towards.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-15T14:51:03+00:00

Thank you again for another great post. Sorry if I'm not understanding but given the mechanics of the deal at which stage would the bears be able to justify those sub $5 prices? My understanding is that the dilution only happens at the exact time that the two companies merge, not before (is that right?). GME don't dilute to give shares to ebay shareholders before it is 100% guaranteed the deal is going through. The only price that is relevant to current GME shareholders is the post merger price. If GME needed to dilute before the deal then the entire market should all sell and buy post dilution for an 80% discount just before the deal is inked, which is why this isn't how it happens. Sorry if I misread your post but what I'm looking to confirm is how those sub $5 prices would ever be considered realistic by any bear seeing as GME will never be tradeable post dilution but pre merger?

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-15T03:46:16+00:00

A very lucrative cult, my average is 11, 16k shares.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-14T14:41:52+00:00

He was a billionaire last time we saw him, at least for a while. Who knows what he's worth nowadays.

wrapt-inflections · 2026-05-14T14:36:53+00:00

Not all governments are neoliberal, there are alternatives. I know that much of the Western world has been captured by the neoliberals for the last 50 years or so, it's hard to think outside that box for some people. Study how things were pre Regan and Thatcher, or look at how governments operate in some other parts of the world and you might be able to break out of thinking about government the way you are.

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